Brewed in collaboration with Short's Brewing, featuring Jonathan Cutler of Piece. This beer was made in honor of the band Ween. We loaded up a Citra Hop forward IPA with some wheat and 1000 lbs of Guava Fruit from Ecuador.

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Excited to try this guava infused collaboration brew! Pours into my glass a brilliant orange/peach hue with a quarter inch of bubbly white head. Whoa, really interesting aroma....quite a melding of bright guava alongside a great citric hoppiness. A crisp wheat tinged caramelized malt backbone is there as well. A bit floral to boot. I really enjoy how the guava shines through here, lush and tropical.

First sip brings a blast of citrus goodness upfront. A cavalcade of guava meets citric hops alongside a light floral/grassy undertone. Crisp wheat malt ties it all together as it flows down. Guava brings a nice tang along with a bitter hop kick as it finishes dry. Awesome brew and the guava is a great addition!

Mouthfeel is medium bodied and a bit crisp from the wheat malt. Good carbonation makes this quite a refreshing brew and great for the heat of summer in August. An awesome collaboration and I wish I had another bottle as I'm sad to finish this one. Worth getting your hands on if you have the ability. Thanks to emerge for the hook up.

A beautiful clear pour! Golden orange in the glass with a thick head which quickly recedes.

Massive hops in the nose. Citrus and lovely, sweet guava!

The taste is mostly guava in betwixt wet hops. It's such a unique taste that it almost dominates the beer for me. I can pick up some orange, peach and mango too but I get guava up front and in the aftertaste.

Low carbonation with good drinkability. I wish this was more prickly. It has a slightly oily feel. That detracts from the overall score here.

Bottle opened up at a bbq two days after its release from the brewery. Pours a bright orange with a slight red tint, half finger white head and good lacing. Smells of tropical fruit, bitter hops and cane sugar. Taste is sweet guava, fruit hop bitterness, and pale malt. Alcohol is very well hidden in the smell and taste. Mouthfeel is very full and sweet. Wheat was almost undetectable in appearance, taste and mouthfeel. I love the sweet fruit/bitter hop balance and could drink these all night, but some of the guys i shared it with felt it was a little too sweet. As the hops fade I have a feeling this one will go downhill fast- drink it soon if you have one.

Pours a crystal clear medium colored copper, topped with a tight finger of bright-white frothy head. Swirling fires this up to nearly a ½ finger of richness that throws a big creamy cascade of lacing up on the sides of the glass. Great look here. The guava jumps out immediately (especially as this warms), with a juicy smelling sweetness that is cut with more bitter smelling grapefruit notes, giving this a sharp green tang in the nose. Floral, piney, and herbal textures work their way into this as well. There is some sweet grainy malt support across the back of the nose but I'm really digging the nice full brightness of the flavors here, which really cut through the nose.

The guava is once again VERY strong here in the taste, bringing an earthy sweetness and juicy stickiness to the profile. Some bright grapefruit adds most of the bitterness here, while grainy malts soak the back and offer up some balancing sweetness. The finish is dry, resinous, and bitter, with lingering pithy grapefruit being the main culprit here. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a soft creamy prickliness to the carbonation but there is also a LOT of silky slickness that just moves this effortlessly here across the tongue with an oily feel. There is some very light warmth in the body but it's overall very well hidden and this overall drinks pretty great.

Even though I would have liked a little more bitterness to the flavor, I really loved the extra juicy layer of complexity that the guava added to this, and the body and drinkibility were pretty darn great for a 7% beer. I'm really digging these Half Acre collaborations.

Massive thanks goes out to mikesgroove for giving me this bottle. Served from bottle into a Warsteiner mug. Poured a slight red-orange with a fluffy four finger off-white head that subsided to two fingers very slowly. Maintained nice lacing throughout the glass. The aroma was comprised of sweet malt, orange zest, and citrus hop. The flavor was of sweet malt, citrus, orange zest, tangerines, and citrus hop. It had a medium feel on the palate with medium carbonation. Overall this was a pretty good brew. Definite huge citrus/orange aspect going on in this one. Pretty nicely balanced despite this making it quite enjoyable. Also had a really good aroma going on as well. A definite must try!

Glowing orb of bright golden orange. High clarity, apparently it was worth the extra week's wait to let the guava settle out. About a finger of foam with an even pour, settles to a ring with a wispy cirrus skim. It doesn't lace all that much.

As it warms there's a building resiny cattiness, leafy hops and earthy guava notes give it some depth. When cold it's harder to pull out these aromas. Some pale malt and possibly wheat are low in the mix, but present. Sticky, floral, citrusy all at once.

Guava gives this a unique tropical flavor, augmented by a hefty dose of moderately bitter hops. Grapefruit rind, slick resin, dry herbals in the finish. Soft wheat and pale malt surface midway through also. Clean up front with the fruit hitting first, followed by a building bitter crescendo that lingers into the long aftertaste. Feels a bit light, juicy even, but ample carbonation reminds that this is an IPA. Finishing a growler will be no problem, though I plan to share it.

Half Acre continues to impress with creative brewing, and solid delivery. Freedom of '78 is a great concept, and I hope the streak of collaborative brainstorming continues...

Smell: extreme amounts of rough, piney hops followed by the guava, which imparts a tropical fruit aroma simlar, and in addition to, the grapefruit from the hops. malt takes a limousine back seat

Taste: just like aroma. lots of prickly, piney hops along with a slightly tart guava and grapefruit character. bitterness is somewhat subdued until the finish, which is pretty bitter and moslty dry with a little bit of lingering tropical fruit. bitterness hangs around for a long time

Mouthfeel: slightly dry, low-medium body with medium carbonation

Notes: what a treat! no-holds-barred pine trees and guava/grapefruitiness.

chilled out with this one this afternoon before a busy day of running around. served cold and poured into a pint glass.

nice pour with a great amber color and a smooth, even head of white that rose to about two inches before fading back down and coating the glass with a good amount of lace.

aroma of deep citrus hops, loads of grapefruit and orange, hints of lemon and pineapple, really a well made ipa. smooth and medium body let the flavor really hit home nicely and a nice smooth finish was loaded with resin filled citrus flavors and loads of dryness that soaked the water out of your palate.

overall really nicely done and a very solid ipa. i was quite impressed with how drinkable it actually is.

T: The strangest of all...this is hoppy and fresh citrus taste up front, with the fastest clean/refreshing aftertaste I've ever encountered. Not sure of this being due to the guava, but regardless, its good! 4.0

M/D: Fresh, light, carbonation with really good drinkability. Its definitely different in a good way. I would have it again for sure.4.0/4.5

a: a shaker pint's all I've got on hand - clear and coppery color, topped with a one-finger white head that quickly falls back to a thin layer on the surface

s: pretty killer in the hop department - vivid green pine and red grapefruit juice, red fruit punch, passionfruit, pale malts with a dose of sweet caramel, the guava is obvious but doesn't really open up until warming

m: body ranges towards the lighter side, moderately carbonated, seems a touch thin but the lighter malts really let the fruits/hops come out, so forgiveness is in order

t: an easy drinking pale malt base with a light addition of caramel sets the stage, big tropical hop flavors meld seamlessly with the guava pulp, more obvious here than on the nose, tropical fruits (lots of passionfruit) run through the middle as a sappy pine bitterness elbows into the finish

d: easy breezy, the abv is somewhat elevated, but it's tasty enough to keep it moving

Taste is good, but a step down from the aroma. Citrusy, grapefruity hops are somewhat more prominent on the palate, but the sweet-tart guava character is still dominant. Light-bodied and slightly metallic, the finish exhibits a moderate bitterness that manages to extend beyond the fruit. This is fairly enjoyable, but the fruit overwhelms the base beer to the point where it comes across as more of a fruit beer than an IPA with fruit.

Appearance: Pours a bright cloudy amber color with just a layer of off white head. The head doesn't stay around for long.

Smell: First I notice a fruity sweetness from the guava along with some malt. There is also an herbal smell from the hops. Overall this is a nice smelling beer.

Taste: Bitter herbal hops are the dominant flavor, but there is also a lot of the fruit as well. The hops and the guava mix quite well. There is a sweetness from the malt, but it is definitely in the background. The finish is bitter and hoppy.

Mouthfeel: Medium body with delicate bubbles that coat the mouth. The carbonation goes quite well with the flavor and body.

Overall: I liked this beer quite a bit. The fruit and the hops went together very well. Well thought out, and I would have another.

A: Pours an exceedingly clear amber/gold color. Sitting on top is about one finger of bright white foam. Retention was fleeting and lacing was minimal but carbonation was on the active side. Steve and I were told at Half Acre, a week ago Friday, that the beer was still opaque and they delayed the release a week to let it settle out. The crystal clarity of this shows that a tremendous amount of settling occured in the last week.

S: As soon as I pryed off the crown top an incredible hoppy aroma oozed out of the bottle. It only got better as I poured. Big, sticky pine and pineapple with snatches of peach, mango, and of course guava. The guava is bright and tart with some dry and toasty wheat shining through, briefly. Some fresh cut sugar cane came on right at the end of the bottle.

T: Just as above. Big time tropical hops walk hand in hand with the slightly tangy guava. As I worked my way through the bottle the guava definitely became the star of the show.

M: Some sips were sticky with resinous hops. Some were loaded with sweet tropical fruit. And some featured, prominently, the slightly tangy guava and dry/toasty wheat. One thing all these sips had in common is that they were all awesome!

D: Half Acre continues to amaze. Matt summed it up quite nicely in his review...I hope the collaborative inspiration continues, because these bottle releases of theirs have been pretty stellar!